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Socket AM5
Socket AM5 (LGA 1718) is AMD's current desktop CPU socket, introduced in September 2022 with the Ryzen 7000 Series, its first mainstream LGA design with pins in the motherboard, and support for Ryzen CPUs through 2029.
Socket shield technique
The socket shield technique, also known as the root membrane technique, is a dental implant procedure that retains part of a tooth root to preserve bone.
Socket wrench
A socket wrench, also called a ratchet wrench, is a hand tool that tightens nuts and bolts through interchangeable sockets on a square drive post.
SocketCAN
SocketCAN is the implementation of Controller Area Network (CAN) protocols in the Linux kernel, exposing CAN buses to user space via the Berkeley socket API; it has been mainline since Linux 2.6.25 in 2008.
Sockeye salmon
Sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), also red or blueback salmon, is an anadromous Pacific salmon from Northwest Alaska to Oregon's Deschutes River, spawning once before dying; kokanee is its freshwater form.
SOCKS
SOCKS, also known as a SOCKS proxy, is a session-layer proxy protocol, published in 1992, that relays TCP and UDP traffic without interpreting it; version 5 is defined in RFC 1928.
Socks (cat)
Socks (1989-2009), the Clintons' tuxedo cat, White House pet 1993-2001; Guinness 'most popular political cat,' 75,000 letters weekly, later lived with Betty Currie, euthanized 2009.
Socompa
Socompa (Volcán Socompa) is a 6,031-m dacitic stratovolcano on the Chile-Argentina border in the Central Andes, known for a ~7,200-year-old sector collapse that produced one of the world's largest debris-avalanche deposits (~37 km³, 40 km runout) and for 2019-onset uplift.
Soconusco
Soconusco, from Nahuatl for "place of sour tunas," is a coastal plain region on the Pacific coast of Chiapas, Mexico, and nearby Guatemala, famed for its cacao.
Socorro Independent School District
Socorro ISD (SISD) is an El Paso County, Texas public school district serving about 47,500 students, TEA-rated B (87), highest-scoring in the El Paso region, with a 2026 tax ratification election on the November ballot.
Socorro Island
Socorro Island (Isla Socorro), largest of Mexico's four Revillagigedo Islands, a volcanic island rising to Volcán Evermann (1,040 m) about 400 km southwest of Cabo San Lucas, with high plant and bird endemism, World Heritage status since 2016, and famous giant manta ray diving.
Socorro springsnail
Socorro springsnail (Pyrgulopsis neomexicana) is a tiny 2.5 mm endangered hydrobiid snail found only at Torreon Springs, Socorro County, New Mexico, with 2.4 m of habitat left after impoundment; federally listed endangered in 1991.
Socorro, Santander
Socorro, also written El Socorro, is a municipality and provincial capital in Santander, Colombia, the main seat of the 1781 Comunero insurrection and of the 1810 declaration of independence.
Socotra
Socotra (سقطرى), Yemeni archipelago in the northwest Indian Ocean near the Gulf of Aden; UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site 2008 with 37% endemic plants, 90% endemic reptiles, 95% endemic land snails, dragon's blood trees, and threats from goats, cyclones, and Yemen's civil war.
Socotra Archipelago Biosphere Reserve
Socotra Archipelago Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO Man and Biosphere reserve designated in 2003 off Yemen's coast, covering 2,195,500 ha with 37% endemic plants, 90% endemic reptiles, and overlapping World Heritage and Ramsar designations.
Sócrates
Sócrates (Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira, 1954–2011), Brazilian doctor-captain of the 1982 World Cup team and Corinthians Democracy leader; died aged 57 in 2011.
Socrates (Σωκράτης)
Socrates (Σωκράτης, c. 469–399 BC) was an Athenian philosopher who wrote nothing and is known through Aristophanes, Xenophon, and Plato; famous for the elenchus, his trial for impiety in 399 BC, and death by hemlock.
Socratic dialogue
Socratic dialogue (Sokratikoi logoi): ancient Greek prose genre portraying Socrates questioning interlocutors via the elenchus; survives complete only in Plato and Xenophon, revived by Nelson and now used in AI tutoring.
Socratic method
Socratic method: teaching and inquiry by question and answer without imparting information, centered on the elenchus (refuting cross-examination), Socratic irony, aporia, and maieutics, as portrayed in Plato's early dialogues and adapted in modern pedagogy.
Socratic problem
The Socratic problem is the effort to reconstruct the historical Socrates, who wrote nothing, from four divergent ancient sources: Aristophanes' Clouds, Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle, whose reliability remains disputed.
Socratic questioning
Socratic questioning: disciplined question-and-answer inquiry named for Socrates (Greek: the elenchus). Used in law, health professions, mathematics, CBT guided discovery, and AI tutors to expose contradictions and build critical thinking.
Socratis Otto
Socratis Otto (born 1970, Sydney) is an Australian NIDA-trained actor known for transgender inmate Maxine Conway in Wentworth (2014–2017), Detective Robert Robertson in Home and Away, Charles Darwin in Darwin's Brave New World, and films including The Matrix Reloaded.
SOCS box domain
SOCS box domain: a ~40-amino-acid C-terminal motif in SOCS1-7, CISH, and over 70 other human proteins (WSB, SSB, ASB, RAR families) that recruits Elongin BC, Cullin5, and Rbx2 to form ECS E3 ubiquitin ligases for proteasomal degradation.
SOCS1
SOCS1, or suppressor of cytokine signaling 1, is an intracellular protein that dampens inflammatory cytokine signaling, most potently inhibiting Janus kinase via a kinase inhibitory region acting as a pseudosubstrate.
SOCS2
SOCS2 (suppressor of cytokine signaling 2, alias SSI-2/CIS2), gene at 12q22, encodes an SH2-domain SOCS-box protein that negatively regulates GH/JAK-STAT signaling; its loss causes 30–50% gigantism in mice.
SOCS3
SOCS3 (suppressor of cytokine signaling 3, CIS3/SSI3, gene ID 9021) is a cytokine-inducible inhibitor of JAK1/JAK2/TYK2 signaling, regulating IL-6, leptin, and G-CSF pathways; dysregulation links to obesity, autoimmunity, and cancer.
Socure
Socure Inc. is an American identity-verification and fraud-prevention software company founded in 2012, headquartered in Incline Village, Nevada, and serving banks, fintechs, and government agencies.
Sod
Sod is farm-grown turfgrass harvested as squares or rolls with soil attached for instant lawns and erosion control; faster but costlier than seed, with an eight-hour post-harvest installation window.
Sod house
The sod house, known on the frontier as a "soddy," was a home built from blocks of prairie grass and earth, used by Great Plains homesteaders where timber was scarce.
Sod's law
Sod's law: British informal adage that whatever can go wrong will, at the worst possible moment; counterpart to Murphy's law. First cited 1963 (OED 1970); explained by selection bias, with Matthews's buttered-toast physics a partial exception.